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Harold and Mary Barnes Foundation

$23k
Granted FY2023
9
Grants FY2023
4
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202023.

Religion$39kInternational$27kYouth Development$15kHuman Services$7kHousing & Shelter$200Other$0
02FY2023 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,300
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
1st Baptist Church Lodi$6,900
Living on the Edge$2,900
Grace and Mercy Foundation$2,400
Focus Ministries$2,400
Teen Challenge Monterery Bay$2,300
Samaritan's Purse$2,200
One Eighty Teen Center$2,200
His 2 Offer$1,800
Individual grant recipient$100
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $400) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Light 2 the World: $400 → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$84k · 11 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +70% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
7

Total granted

$84k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
+13%

Still filing today

36%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23
ReligionYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterInternationalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • H2
    HIS 2 OFFER
    4× · 2020–2023 · $14k · revenue +70%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    4× · 2020–2023 · $11k · revenue +106%
  • FM
    FOCUS MINISTRIES
    4× · 2020–2023 · $7k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • FB
    FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF LODI
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • TC
    TEEN CHALLENGE MONTEREY BAY
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
  • NW
    Navigators World Mission
    one grant, 2022 · $1k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Jesus in Vietnam Ministries
Religion
2
Asia Us Impact

Religious

Religion
3
Everything Laid Down Ministries

To give the gospel of Jesus Christ of Nazareth to the poor and dejected of the world. We do this by caring for widows, orphans, and broken people around the world. We care for hem by feeding, clothing, and encouraging them in Jesus by His…

Religion
4
Heart Bridge International

Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…

Religion
5
Connect the World

The purpose of the organization is to share the passionate love of god the father throughout the world, his salvation through his son, the lord jesus christ, and to lead people to an experience with the holy spirit and his power. our…

Religion
6
Light and Salvation Ministries
Religion
7
Dozen Ministries

Religious

Religion
8
Oceans of Mercy

Missionary work in the nation of India

Religion
9
Prepare the Way Ministry

Education, Humanitarian, Community outreach and evangelism ministry. Provide Orphan Care, Train Youth in Career Paths, Train Pastors and Others in Bible School, Prison Ministry, Provide Elementary School for about 300 Children

International
10
Sole Ministries

None

Religion
11
House of Prayer for All Nations

Church ministry

Religion
12
Shadow of His Wings

Shadow of his wings is a ministry, raised up by god, called to "change the world one woman at a time for jesus christ". there is a sense of urgency to help women understand their need of knowing god with all their heart, mind and soul as…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Vision Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cindys Celebrations Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

1st Baptist Church Lodi — $20,900 · Other1st Baptist Church LodiTeen Challenge Monterery Bay — $7,531 · OtherTeen Challenge Monterery BayOne Eighty Teen Center — $6,200 · OtherOne Eighty Teen CenterGrace and Mercy Foundation — $6,100 · OtherGrace and Mercy FoundationIndividual grant recipient — $3,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF LODI — $3,000 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF LODI+5 more — $3,580 · Other+5 moreHIS 2 OFFER — $13,800 · ReligionHIS 2 OFFERSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $11,250 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSELiving on the Edge Ministries Inc — $8,000 · ReligionLiving on the Edge Ministries IncFOCUS MINISTRIES — $6,500 · Youth DevelopmentWORLD VISION INC — $815 · InternationalHOPE OF THE NATIONSINC — $100 · InternationalLIGHT 2 THE WORLD — $400 · Human ServicesLODI HOUSE — $200 · Housing & Shelter
Other$50,311Religion$33,050Youth Development$6,500International$915Human Services$400Housing & Shelter$200

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHIS 2 OFFER — $13,800 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $11,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLiving on the Edge Ministries Inc — $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOCUS MINISTRIES — $6,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetWORLD VISION INC — $815 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCindys Celebrations Inc — $600 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLIGHT 2 THE WORLD — $400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLODI HOUSE — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE OF THE NATIONSINC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds HIS 2 OFFER
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE
  • Who funds Living on the Edge Ministries Inc
  • Who funds FOCUS MINISTRIES
  • Who funds WORLD VISION INC
  • Who funds Cindys Celebrations Inc
  • Who funds LIGHT 2 THE WORLD
  • Who funds LODI HOUSE
  • Who funds HOPE OF THE NATIONSINC

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA9.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Harold and Mary Barnes Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Harold and Mary Barnes Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Harold and Mary Barnes Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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